You are only as big as the dreams you dare to live.

You don't have to be someone special to achieve something amazing. You've just got to have a dream, believe in it and work hard.

You don't have to be anyone special to achieve something big. You just have to want to do it.

For me... it was always about the challenge of making this voyage... It was always a calculated risk, but life is a risk.

You can't change conditions - just the way you deal with them.

I’m an ordinary girl who believed in her dream.

What will my world be without books?

I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow--to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery.

I want to chase the butterflies.

It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one.

That was my challenge as a composer. Like with anything, to keep yourself interested in doing what you do, you set yourself challenges. So I said, Okay, I'll try to write a hundred tunes in a year.

From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

I don't really know what I'm ever looking for, it's kind of like whatever happens to resonate at the time with me.

Do people who wave at trains Wave at the driver, or at the train itself? Or, do people who wave at trains Wave at the passengers? Those hurtling strangers, The unidentifiable flying faces?

I'm going to tell you a secret. Our lives are shaped by the future, not by the past. Once you decide how you want your life to be, all you need to do is live into that future.